Thank you. It works. Happy New Year! :)
On Friday, 2 January 2026 at 12:39, Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Mateusz, > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2026 at 01:15:27PM +0000, Mateusz Belzak wrote: > > > I'd like to report issue with accessing your wiki (wiki.debian.org) from my > > home IP address 213.254.181.9 > > > > I get below response: > > Forbidden > > > > <p>You are not allowed to access this!</p> > > > > In addition, may I know the reason why I was put on block list? I am > > learning Debian and it was working fine until couple of days ago. > > > > In the meantime I use proton VPN to access the wiki. > > > I've just unblocked your IP address now. > > Due to massive abuse of resources by morons scraping the entire web > for data for their LLMs, we've ended up blocking various parts of the > net from accessing the wiki. > > Recently, however, those same morons have made things worse by using > botnets to access resources from residential IP addresses scattered > all over the world. We've been analysing traffic to identify IPs > involved and block those too, but sometimes that isn't 100% > accurate. :-( > > -- > Steve McIntyre [email protected] > Debian wiki admin - wiki.debian.org [email protected]
